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New Open Source Stack saves money
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| Scientists of Vienna University of
| Technology (TU Wien) release EtherNet/IP?
| open-source software stack to help product
| developers cost-effectively connect devices
| to industrial Ethernet.
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http://www.juraforum.de/jura/news/news/p/1/id/301258/f/196/
Italian Region Tuscany Uses Open Source Software For GIS Application For Healthcare, Law and Other Purposes
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| The administration of the Tuscany region in
| Italy this month published a new version of
| Sagadb, an open source Geographic
| Information System (GIS) application.
|
| The software allows users to view a map to
| access public available information. The
| system is also being used by museums,
| libraries, courts of law and by health care
| organisations in the region.
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http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/30473
Paris Schools To Use Existing Open Source Portal Eliot
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| The 471 schools of the Paris region
| (officially referred to as 'Īle-de-France
| region') that are to be involved in the
| portal project that was announced in October
| 2009 will be using Eliot, a web-based
| workflow software that was originally
| developed for three schools of the region.
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http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/30471
Recent:
U Wants to Re-define "Closed" as "Nearly Open"
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| Version 1 came out in 2004, and since then
| battles have raged over how Version 2 would
| address the issue of "openness". Judging by
| a leaked version of the near-final result,
| it looks like the lobbyists acting on the
| behalf of closed-source software houses
| have won.
|
| [...]
|
| Got that? "Closed" lies at one end of the
| *open* spectrum, which conveniently means
| we can *include* closed solutions in the
| interoperability framework because they are
| part of that continuum.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?ent...d=2620&
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